[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 114 (Wednesday, September 5, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H5343-H5344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

  A message from the Senate by Mr. Monohan, one of its clerks, 
announced that the Senate has passed with amendments in which the 
concurrence of the House is requested, bills of the House of the 
following titles:

       H.R. 2133. An act to establish a commission for the purpose 
     of encouraging and providing for the commemoration of the 
     50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. 
     Board of Education.
       H.R. 2620. An act making appropriations for the Departments 
     of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
     for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, 
     corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 2620) ``An Act making appropriations for the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and 
offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other 
purposes,'' requests a conference with the House on the disagreeing 
votes of the two Houses thereon; and appoints Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Leahy, 
Mr. Harkin, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Inouye, 
Mr. Bond, Mr. Burns, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Craig, Mr. Domenici, Mr. DeWine, 
and Mr. Stevens, to be the conferees on the part of the Senate.
  The message also announced that the Senate has passed bills and 
concurrent resolutions of the following titles in which the concurrence 
of the House is requested:

       S. 238. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
     to conduct feasibility studies on water optimization in the 
     Burnt River basin, Malheur River basin, Owyhee River basin, 
     and Powder River basin, Oregon.
       S. 329. An act to require the Secretary of the Interior to 
     conduct a theme study on the peopling of America, and for 
     other purposes.
       S. 356. An act to establish a National Commission on the 
     Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase.
       S. 491. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, 
     pursuant to the provisions of the Reclamation Wastewater and 
     Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to participate in the 
     design, planning, and construction of the Denver Water Reuse 
     project.
       S. 498. An act to amend the National Trails System Act to 
     include national discovery trails, and to designate the 
     American Discovery Trail, and for other purposes.
       S. 506. An act to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
     Act, to provide for a land exchange between the Secretary of 
     Agriculture and the Huna Totem Corporation, and for other 
     purposes.
       S. 509. An act to establish the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain 
     Arm National Heritage Corridor in the State of Alaska, and 
     for other purposes.
       S. 584. An act to designate the United States courthouse 
     located at 40 Centre Street in New York, New York, as the 
     ``Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse''.
       S. 737. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 811 South Main Street in 
     Yerington, Nevada, as the ``Joseph E. Dini, Jr. Post 
     Office''.
       S. 970. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 39 Tremont Street, Paris 
     Hill, Maine, as the ``Horatio King Post Office Building''.
       S. 1026. An act to designate the United States Post Office 
     located at 60 Third Avenue in Long Branch, New Jersey, as the 
     ``Pat King Post Office Building''.
       S. 1046. An act to establish a commission for the purpose 
     of encouraging and providing for the commemoration of the 
     50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. 
     Board of Education.
       S. 1144. An act to amend title III of the Stewart B. 
     McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331 et seq.) to 
     reauthorize the Federal Emergency Management Food and Shelter 
     Program, and for other purposes.
       S. 1198. An act to reauthorize Franchise Fund Pilot 
     Programs.
       S. Con. Res. 59. Concurrent resolution expressing the sense 
     of Congress that there

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     should be established a National Community Health Center Week 
     to raise awareness of health services provided by community, 
     migrant, public housing, and homeless health centers.
       S. Con. Res. 62. Concurrent resolution congratulating 
     Ukraine on the 10th anniversary of the restoration on its 
     independence and supporting its full integration into the 
     Euro-Atlantic community of democracies.

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